{"id":78,"date":"2008-05-22T08:18:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T15:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/one-church.net\/wordpress\/?p=78"},"modified":"2008-05-22T08:18:06","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T15:18:06","slug":"saddleback-the-conference-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/22\/saddleback-the-conference-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Saddleback, the conference continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Day two of the great Saddleback Church Conference!<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\">OK, OK, OK\u2026 for those of you who watched the video\u2026 Wahoo\u2019s wasn\u2019t that bad. In fact, it was pretty good, because I had the Banzai Burrito and onion rings. But, I stand my ground on the fish taco thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Nasty with a capital N. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">You know, I believe there are some things in life we are allowed to dislike without trying\u2026 like sushi and fish tacos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">That\u2019s my story and I\u2019m sticking to it. But, onto the conference!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\">The conference is truly the definition of drinking from the fire hose. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>I have never before had the experience of sitting in chair for several hours, only to stand up at the end of the day and be winded.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Either there is some amazing stuff being taught here, or I am more out of shape than any human being in history. Actually, that could be a possibility\u2026 hmmm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Regardless, here\u2019s today\u2019s list of prominent quotes, thoughts and ideas to see if any connect with you <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">(Now, where is that donut?)<\/em> :<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Jesus always expected people to do something when He preached. We need to become churches of application. Knowledge without application produces pride, and knowledge without application brings judgment. We can\u2019t just teach our people, they have to change.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">All behavior is based on a belief, no matter what someone is doing, it\u2019s because of something they really believe.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Behind every sin is a lie. You find that lie and you and start to take care of the sin.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">What you think you own is really on loan\u2026 someone else is gonna have it someday real soon.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">A lot of people are leaving our churches today informed, but nor transformed.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">We should get good at worship, it\u2019s the only thing we\u2019re going to do for all eternity that we are doing while we are still here.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">All innovation born in the church was not the product of genius, but despair. We had to come up with something!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">FROM A PASTOR TELLING A PERRSONAL <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>STORY:<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cA woman stopped me at the grocery store and said she was glad she found me and that she asked God to meet with me. I said great, what can I do for you. She said I need your forgiveness and then began to tell me all the things that were wrong with me, my ministry and my church. Then she said she really felt better to get all that off her chest. Finally, she let me know that her family would be leaving the church because they just weren\u2019t getting fed there anymore and asked if there was anyway she could pray for me. The only thing I could think of was\u2026 Well, I do have an anger issue and I want to give you a hand gesture right now\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Later that same pastor was asked about his spiritual disciplines and he said \u201cI am not disciplined at all, and I am pretty sure that\u2019s how God intended us to be.\u201d (he was hilarious)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">The family is the most important small group in the church.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">If you want real discipleship in the church you need to blur the generational lines. Keeping people in their age designations has kept us from the discipleship that God intended. If we didn\u2019t have these separations then discipleship would be natural.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Forty percent of the people in church today say they would be involved in ministry but don\u2019t know how to get involved, or have never been asked.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Obviously, it was another good day. Please keep us in your prayers as we have half a day of conference left and a full day of travel. Yep, that means we have a full day and a half today. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Good thing I am not in charge of the math for the church, eh?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Once again, let me know which of these quotes strikes you most, and please, pass this blog along to some friends\u2026 we have well over a hundred readers a day, but we are just a few subscriptions away from the century mark and that would be cool!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conference is truly the definition of drinking from the fire hose. I have never before had the experience of sitting in chair for several hours, only to stand up at the end of the day and be winded. Either there is some amazing stuff being taught here, or I am more out of shape than any human being in history. Actually, that could be a possibility\u2026 hmmm. Regardless, here\u2019s today\u2019s list of prominent quotes, thoughts and ideas to see if any connect with you (Now, where is that donut?) :<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}